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Mr. Book just finished Sedition: How America’s Constitutional Order Emerged from Violent Crisis, by Marcus Alexander Gadson.
This book will be published on May 13, 2025.
This book is about the writing of state constitutions and the battles that ensued from that. The book covered six incidents of rewriting state constitutions in the 19th century. There are stories of vote fraud, near violence, actual violence and plenty of white supremacy. There was plenty of good information in the book and stories that even big history buffs won’t already be familiar with.
I give this book an A.
Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, an A equates to 5 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).
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Mr. Book finished reading this on December 27, 2024.
